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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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29. To the same.

VVho acts things, worthy to be writ, or writes,
Things worth the Reading; on no small bliss lights.
No Plummet sounds your Repute; who alone,
By a rare Genius make these Two, but One.
Readers your Writings covet; ev'ry Act,
Might all Historians Table-books, exact.
Your writings prove you Learned; Deeds attest,
That Prowess Anchors, in your noble Brest.